meeting_00007_20200728.md

Rust ML WG Meeting 00007

Meeting Info

Date: 20200728

Start time: 1600 ET

https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/96478383368

Meeting ID: 964 7838 3368

Agenda

• Progress on Linfa is continuing
  • improve CI with testing (seems to be broken) and code formatting check
  • attract more potential contributors
  • write a Rust ML book, showcasing some existing algorithms
  • how should features look like in linfa?
• chrism has started working on a library for parsing the CIFAR-10 binary files and returning an Array4 data and Array2 labels
  • Not for general release yet, but could be useful
  • https://github.com/quietlychris/cifar-10
  • adding CIFAR-10 examples in linfa

Participants

• chris m
• Lorenz
• Jed B.
• Patrick B.
• Paul K.
• Tiberio F.

Minutes

• Discussed use of CIFAR-10 dataset for CNNs

  • chris m's library has made progress, still needs to push commits

• linfa has accepted ~4 pull requests in the last couple weeks

  • decision trees, logistic/linear regressions, common evaluation metrics

• Also need to evaluate the structure of linfa

  • Automated testing
  • Code formatting
  • Adding machine learning showcase book
  • Thinking about using features/feature gates for sub-crates?
  • Machine learning showcase?
  • No additional open pull requests

• Linfa to-dos

  • Removing top-level example of K-means, or adding sub-crate examples to top-level
    • make documentation reflect this

• Consider reorganizing linfa, such that sub-crates are in different repositories, etc.

• Considering making the machine learning showcase Book as a new repository to the rust-ml GH repo

  • https://bytesnake.github.io/mdbook_example/ (see https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bytesnake/bytesnake.github.io/full/rendered/mdbook_example/example.md for source)

• Discussed existing autodifferentiation libraries

  • GATs are needed; in the language pipeline, but not in stable at the moment
  • autograd, autograph

• Tiberio discussed his webgpu library

  • Currently supports matrix multiplication, reshaping, broadcasting
  • Still under development, working on it in his free time
  • Synchronous and async interfaces available
  • He's writing a lot of tests, making sure of everything's correctness, then will transition to focusing on speed

Actions

• Begin working on roadmap to Linfa 0.2 release (see suggestions above)
  • Open issue on GitHub for ongoing conversation
  • Restart CI pipeline, etc. --this needs to be updated, since repostory has changed ownership from Luca to the rust-ml org